Sunday, October 01, 2006

October

At last.

Election signs are starting to pop up around Enfield. The Republicans in town usually seem to get the jump on the Democrats, which is why I'm seeing a lot of massive "Simmons for Congress" signs on busy street corners. I've also seen a couple of "Joe" signs here and there (including an "I'm Sticking With Joe" sign posted on the interstate on-ramp--I didn't know I-91 north got political), but strangely these have all disappeared.

Also spotted in town were a couple of DeStefano/Glassman signs (and one lonely DeStefano/Slifka sign left over from the primary), some Lamont signs and a black-on-yellow Courtney sign.

No Jodi Rell signs yet.

Both major-party candidates for my state rep district, Charles Woods (R) and Karen Jarmoc (D) have been pounding the pavement, and either they or their campaign workers have left literature stuck in my door. I spoke with some nice Lamont volunteers walking my street asking people about issues yesterday.

Campaign season is finally here. This month is going to see debates, lawn signs, bumper stickers, a blizzard of commercials and news stories and more election coverage and nonsense than we can stand.

I can't wait.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

No Jodi lawn signs in Enfield???

You must be kidding...a blind man on horseback could point out all the Jodi signs.

Genghis Conn said...

Must be in a different part of town. I haven't seen any except outside GOP HQ.

Anonymous said...

71 American kids and hundreds,perhaps thousands of Iraqis had there lives snuff out for nothing in Sept in Iraq.

I remember a couple of years ago when this blog and this country cared enough to report those figures.

I hope you nutmeggers feel safer.

GMR said...

71 American kids and hundreds,perhaps thousands of Iraqis had there lives snuff out for nothing in Sept in Iraq.

Do you think if the US left Iraq, that there'd be less violence there amongst Iraqi factions?

Anonymous said...

I think there would be less violence and killing after a short uptick.

The latest poll says 61% of Iraqis think attacking American troops is justified.WE(the USA) are the common enemy.

Very soon after we leave the Sunni will find a strongman to unite around( he'll more than likely be from Takrit),throw Iran and ALL FOREIGN FIGHTERS AND JIHADISTS out of their country and get their secular government back in place.

The argument being made that "We can't leave" is total garbage.There were no Jihadists or al-quiada in Iraq before we invaded because Iraqis had no use for them.When we leave they'll again have no use for them.

Every Iraqi knows exactly who the foreign fighters are but they've decided that the jihadist are more on their side then the American occupiers.It's really that simple.

Anonymous said...

"There were no Jihadists or al-quiada in Iraq before we invaded because Iraqis had no use for them.When we leave they'll again have no use for them."

1. Richard Clarke was wrong then when he feared that Osama Bin Laden would "boogie to Baghdad"

2. Iraq seemed quiet because of a totalitarian regime. If you endorse what Saddam did to the Shiite and Kurds as proper, please do so

Anonymous said...

Like it or not the Iraqi people were better off under Saddam when compared to their lives today.

Under Saddam all power was vertical and in order to stay alive you only had to avoid the Givernment and their agents.

Today in Iraq death comes from multiple horizontal forces and noone is safe.Just being a Sunni a Shia a Kurd or any tribe member means you are being targeted for death by some force.


You can't condemn Saddam without admitting that what the USA has created in Iraq is much much worse.

The only way this ends is with the country of Iraq intact is with a new Sunni strongman.The entire neocon pipedream is over.The only question left now is how many more of our kids will be sacrificed on the neocon alter.

Authentic Connecticut Republican said...

>>You can't condemn Saddam without admitting that what the USA has created in Iraq is much much worse.


You might want to speak to afew Kurds about that; I doubt they'll agree.

Anonymous said...

ACR,

Have you forgotten it was Rumsfeld who and a different REPUBLICAN Administation that provided the precursors for the gas and doubled aid to Saddam 2 months after Saddam gassed the Kurds?

It was also Bush 1 who asked the Shia to rise up against Saddam and then allowed him to use his helicopters to slaughter 300,000 of them.

Your party should stick to what it does best,protecting child molesters like Rep.Foley and crooks like John Rowland.

Anonymous said...

I am a Democrat and i will be voting for Jodi Rell in November as well as Joe Lieberman.

Jodi Rell isnt going to lose Because she has been straight with the voters and she has worked very hard in her 2 1/2 year tenure.

John DeStefano cant be trusted He is a typical city mayor who cant keep a promise when picking a running mate for Lt Governor and his city is riddled with crime. I cant vote for someone who tells lies and has a crappy campaign spokesman like Derek Slap( he needs to be shipped off to Idaho or Montana)who is just DeStefano's lackey.

Joe Lieberman will win Because Ned Lamont hasn't been too eager to bring the whole Democratic Party together just the anti war liberal cut and run crowd. Ned's advertising is crap and the ad with the kid reading the names of dead solidiers show no class and is a slap in the face to all of the troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Connecticut Democratic Party should be ashamed to be backing you Liberals I am ashamed of all of you for your attitudes and your lack of respect for America.

In 37 days You all will be silenced by The re-elections of Jodi Rell and Joe Lieberman and I am glad Connecticut is just saying NO DEAL to Lamont and DeStefano.

GMR said...

there has been a visible increase in the amount of state residents are living in poverty from 7.5% in 2000-2001 to more than 9% in 2004-2005.

One thing I'd always like to know about statistics like these, is how many of these children are children of recent immigrants -- legal or illegal? Because if someone moves here from a third world country with no marketable skills (or no accreditation: many foreign degrees are useless here if the US professional association has strength) and limited or no English language proficiency. If a sizable portion of these children are children of immigrants, there's really nothing we can do. If we increase eligiblity for benefits for immigrants, we'll get more and more immigrants.

Authentic Connecticut Republican said...

CONNECTICUT ECONOMIC STANDOUT PONTS-
*Median Household Income declining
*Residents without adequate healthcare is on the rise
*Loss of over 40,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000
*Loss of over 16,000 professional-business service jobs since 2000
*Modest losses in most sectors while there has been a limited gain in others
*Modest wage increase for educated-highly skilled workers, however the increase is small in comparison when measuring it over the last 20 years. When keeping in consideration the cost of living in Ct has become expensive to extremely expensive in some parts. (usually where jobs are located)
*Wage gains of low income workers demonstrates the massive problem of Wage
Inequality among workers
*Wage inequality of black and minorities workers is significant and leads to tremendous
Amounts of poverty in lower-income or inner city communities
*Wage inequality between men and women shows significant gap….
*Wages period aren’t enough for single residents or families to maintain an economic healthy lifestyle in this state.


Thank you for making our case!

Both the CT Senate & House have been run into the ground by the Dems for far too long and your data bolsters that fact as well as anything I've seen.


Let's get Jodi some help so she's not the only grown-up in Hartford.

Vote Republican

Anonymous said...

Unmoderated comments here I see?

I guess we find out in a month what the story will be eh?

Oh about Iraq? If we cut and run the violence will escalate, not decrease.

Anonymous said...

Brian:

HEY, ARE YOU THE SAME BRIAN WHO RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM UCONN??????!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Anonymous said...

Brian... how do you differentiate between ballots cast by overseas servicemen and your regular run-of-the-mill absentee ballot? Are they different? If so, that's concerning. What about smaller towns that have only one democratic registered serviceman overseas? In that case, there's no secrecy in the ballot. That's very concerning. So is it true that these overseas ballots are segregated?